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Atomic first aid
This public service advertisement, produced by the Advertisement Council in 1953, illustrates Cold War fears of atomic war. It advises people on what supplies to have...
Dropping the first atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, a B-29 aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Hiroshima was bombed by a single B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, which flew out of...
Eyewitness account
By the late 1930s, physicists believed a “super bomb” using nuclear fission was theoretically possible. In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the...
Manhattan physicist
Some of the early research for the "Manhattan Project" to develop the atomic bomb was done by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. This photo is among the...
Survival supplies for fallout shelter
In this 1961 photograph, a civil defense exhibit displays survival supplies for a fallout shelter. Designed to protect its inhabitants from nuclear, biological, or...
Search results 1 - 5 of 5 for the tag Atomic Bomb